Feature Set 1
• Mostly drawing enhancements
• First of many cross-product collaboration tools: eDrawings
Markup Import.

Show Hidden Bodies in Parts
• Just like ‘Show Hidden Components’ in assemblies

Assembly Performance Offenders
• Ordered list of all components and patterns that slow dow graphics display

eDrawings Markup Imports
• Copy markups directly from eDrawings file to .slddrw file

Quick Section Views
• Create complex section views with on-screen pop-up toolbar

Revision Clouds
• Call out drawing changes with eDrawings-like cloud lines

Feature Set 2
• Miscellaneous features

Snapshots in any Document
• Started in 2012 for assemblies only. Now includes parts.

Simulation Sub-Modeling
• Run simulations on small subsections of models, with forces and features defined in larger context.

Bounding-Box Cutlist Properties
• Parametric properties based on length, width, thickness, etc. for any part/body
BOM
Properties

3DVia Composer Cameras
• Make complex, multi-view animations

Feature Set 3
• Assembly enhancements
• Make it easier to find, fit, and insert components quickly.

Quick-Pick Document Type
• Easy filter buttons in ‘Open’ window for parts, assemblies, and drawings

Envelope Enhancements
• Any part or assembly can be used as an envelope, and, when inserted into drawings, envelope components can have their own line font.

Insert Multiple Parts
• In ‘Insert Component,’ select multiple components, and insert them one after the other, without stopping

Feature Set 4
• Improve model visualization
• Improved exploded views and cosmetic threads.
• Improved model creation
• Improved wizards for plastic mounting bosses and dowel holes.

Multiple Exploded Views
• More than one exploded view without creating new configs

Rotate Exploded Parts
• Rotate parts about any axis in an exploded view.

Favorites Folder
• Create a folder at the top with all your most important/most edited features, sketches, ref geometry, etc.

Plastic Boss Mount Control
• Edit every aspect of mounting bosses.

Cosmetic Threads…
• Now you can show shaded cosmetic threads without the dotted lines.

…and Dowel Holes
• Create dowel holes with the hole wizard. Dowel hole symbols are automatically inserted into drawings.

Thread Interference Control
• Pair and ignore interference caused by threads.

Feature Set 5
• Improvements to existing functionality
• Patterns, equations, thin extrudes.

Surface Intersect
• Similar to Cut with Surface, but you can add and remove material at the same time.

Extrude Multiple Thin Contours
• Finally.

Equation Entry Everywhere
• The next step in the overhaul of equations, started in 2012. Now create full equations in any PropertyManager.

Vary Pattern Dimensions
• Create a feature pattern, even if you don’t want them spaced at regular intervals.

Feature Set 6
• Collaboration tools
• Features that allow different SolidWorks products to collaborate more effectively.

EPDM – Collaborate with Others
• Contact info and an Instant Messaging client built into
EPDM. Integrates with MS Communicator, email, etc.

DraftSight – EPDM Checkout
• The beginning of DraftSight integration into ‘real’
SolidWorks products.

DraftSight – Copy Sketches
• Copy entitles directly from DraftSight into a new sketch in
SolidWorks

Previous Release Interoperability!!!
• Open SolidWorks 2013 Files in 2012 SP5.
• Any changes made in one version are carried over to the other, with no data loss.
• No need to save in special format.